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Napa city budget on even keel

Friday, May 23, 2008

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By KEVIN COURTNEY
Register Staff Writer

NoonDespite a slowing in sales tax revenue, the city of Napa’s budget remains healthy, with expenditures running below expectations, City Manager Mike Parness reported this week.

Sales tax revenues through the first six months of the fiscal year grew 2 percent, less than the 3 percent that had been budgeted, Parness said.

Property tax and hotel tax revenues continue to perform well, putting Napa in much better shape than many cities, Parness told the City Council.

Earlier this month the Vallejo City Council voted to file for bankruptcy, while American Canyon expects to cut $2.7 million from next year’s budget because of reduced home sales and a general slowing of the economy.

The state’s major budget problems could trickle down to Napa in unknown ways, affecting the city’s 2008/09 budget, Parness said.

5 comment(s)

db76 wrote on May 23, 2008 12:47 PM:

" I guess all that money the city is not spending on fixing the roads is why the budget is so healthy. "

truthteller wrote on May 23, 2008 1:58 PM:

" I'm so happy that the $6000 a year I pay in property taxes is "performing" so well. However, in my neighborhood the city's old diseased trees continue to chew up the sidewalks and grow into my sewer backing the sewage into the front yard every one to two years. Oh yeah, my street is disentegrating as well. Instead of this massive building campaign, could we fix some the stuff we've got? "

tired wrote on May 23, 2008 3:23 PM:

" now we'll see if it's really about tax revenue or if the council is in the pocket of hungry developers "

musikluvr wrote on May 23, 2008 5:13 PM:

" Sure its on an even keel when they don't fix sidewalks or streets or provide other basic services which have been traditional for 150 years. The budget is balanced easily when all the money is allocated to employees and nothing else. That is not a budget, it is a lie. "

Straight Talk wrote on May 23, 2008 9:31 PM:

" You guys are so predictable.... can you imagine? Complaining that the city's budget is not running in the red... what next? Will you complain that our city has crime? That the occasional fire breaks out? That our fine firefighters and police can't stop every crime, injury, or death?

The streets and sidewalks will be fixed... it's up to you how quickly that happens. "

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